膬

膬	U+81AC, 膬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81AC

← 膫
[U+81AB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

膭 →
[U+81AD]

Translingual

Han character

膬 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月竹山山 (BHUU) or 難月竹山山 (XBHUU), four-corner 7221₅, composition ⿰月毳)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 994, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29866
Dae Jaweon: page 1445, character 22
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2112, character 1
Unihan data for U+81AC

Chinese

trad.		膬
simp. ^#		膬
alternative forms		脆脺脃／脆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毳) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
膬	skʰods, skʰod
毳	skʰods, skʰrods
竁	skʰods, skʰrods, *kʰjons
橇	skʰrods, kʰrow

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cuì (cui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceoi³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cuèi
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻui⁴
  - Yale: tswèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuey
  - Palladius: цуй (cuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ceoi³
  - Yale: cheui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoey³
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêu³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵy̯³³/

Middle Chinese: tshjwejH, tshjwet

Rime
Character	膬	膬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	祭 (36)	薛 (82)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	此芮切	七絕切
Baxter	tshjwejH	tshjwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰiuᴇi^H/	/t͡sʰiuᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰʷiɛi^H/	/t͡sʰʷiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰiuæi^H/	/t͡sʰjuæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰwiaj^H/	/t͡sʰwiat̚/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰiuɛi^H/	/t͡sʰiuɛt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰĭwɛi^H/	/t͡sʰĭuɛt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡sʰi̯wɛi^H/	/t͡sʰi̯wɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cuì	que
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ceoi³	cyut³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[tsʰ]ot/

(Zhengzhang): /*skʰods/, /*skʰod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	膬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cuì
Middle Chinese	‹ tshjwet ›
Old Chinese	/*[tsʰ]ot/
English	brittle, fragile
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	膬	膬
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	1891	1899
Phonetic component	毳	毳
Rime group	祭	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	毳
Old Chinese	/*skʰods/	/*skʰod/
Notes	通作脆	通作脆

Definitions

膬

alternative form of 脆 (cuì)

Compounds

甘膬